analogika

Great playing, but holy crap, that's some shit editing.

didn't he already say he'd bought one? I thought I’d understood it that way at one point. This was his first time actually playing one, though. it was GREAT to watch him figure out what a synth does..

the PS-3200 did, though — which is where they borrowed it.

As long as it’s cosmically harmonic, you do You.

I thought Norway followed the German convention in calling a g# "gis" and a gb "ges"? Db is "des", D# "dis", Ab is "As", while A# is "A-is", etc… I work with musicians all the time who aren’t formally trained and will call an A# ("Ais") a Bb ("B"), but that’s because it’s what they’re familiar with, and because they’re unaware (or don’t care) that those are different notes, and one of them is wrong. I shudder to think how much purely financial damage has been caused by the B/H thing, by the way — get a bunch of seasoned pros in a room for a rehearsal, pass out a chord sheet with a "B" on it, and I can guarantee that half of them will be playing Bb and half of them B natural. Stop - clarify - start over. Times six or so professional hourly wages… I’m sure it’s no trivial sum over the course of a year in this country alone.

But…that’s the part that’s completely irrelevant! Our entire musical system is based on maths, frequency relations between harmonics, and mathematical ratios between notes that dictate the various tunings. None of that is affected in the least by changing the reference frequency of one particular note, and shifting all others accordingly. There anre absolutely zero external external reference points that aren’t completely arbitrary, and thus meaningless.

Arlo is awesome. He wrote me an email out of the blue FIVE YEARS after we’d had an exchange about Pencil support, to tell me that he finally had an iPad with Pencil and had been able to test and tweak notes support.

The first answer in that reddit thread nails it. Depends on where you're coming from, and where you're going. Also, playing in Gb minor will get you shot, since that (and its relative major, Bbb) is a key with 9 flats.

Now THAT is a connection I hadn't heard of before. Wow.

Your iPhone 6 got its last security update on JANUARY 23rd, 2023. Eight years and four months after it was introduced. (six and four months after it was discontinued) I get that you are talking about new functionality, not software support per se, yet, I find this argumentation disingenuous and annoying. "Deliberately disabling" is NOT the same thing as "no longer updating it with new functionality". The Yamaha SY77 I bought new in 1992 was not "deliberately disabled" at purchase as per your argument, just because Yamaha never shipped a firmware upgrade for it. That's just ridiculous. It's STILL functional and does exactly what I bought it for, thirty years ago. Your 2012 iMac continued to do *exactly* what it had always done when Apple stopped updating the software. The Emulator II librarian needs a 35-year-old ancient Mac operating system — that's "planned obsolescence" from a hardware manufacturer. Calling the celebration of 8 years of software support FOR A CELLPHONE a "joke" just because your own was only supported for FIVE YEARS isn't fair. For one, it assumes that Apple is under the obligation to perpetually enable your phone to do things it could not when you bought it, which is not how hardware — nor software — works. For another, it conflates "software support" — ensuring safe and secure operation via security updates — with "upgrades" that introduce new functionality. Even more ridiculous is the claim that Apple "invented planned obsolescence", considering the market at the time. In contrast, the highest-end Android phones back then were getting AT MOST barely two years of support, while the majority of phones were shipped from the start with outdated versions of Android that were never updated at all. This graphic predates the iPhone 6, but it gives a pretty good idea of what was going on, since you've apparently forgotten: Note that this is both "software updates" in YOUR sense of the meaning — new versions, with new functionality — and "support updates" in my sense (the little dashes in the boxes). All the iPhones listed were supported beyond the timeline shown here. The last security update for the iPhone 3GS came out in February 2014 — nearly five years after its release. It's not shown in this table. That Nexus 4 got dropped from regular software upgrades two years after release (in Nov 2014), and security updates stopped after exactly three years (as per google support page). But yeah, Apple invented planned obsolescence.

Interesting. I've never seen them noted as "me" and "ra" — "mi" and "re" only.

I just read up on it, and German and Austrian philharmonic orchestras actually tune to 443 Hz. They used to follow the oboe, but started tuning to the Konzertmeister a decade or so ago, who verifies his tuning against an electronic tuner. When this change was made, the pitch was corrected downward from 444. Karajan used to run his orchestras at 445.

Just a note: Apple just released another security update to the iPhone 6S. That puts support at EIGHT YEARS and four months since release (or almost five and a half years since it was disconitnued) — and counting. 🙂

Concert pitch for orchestras here in Germany is generally 442, AFAIK.

Jesus, what is going on with these guys…! Wow. I‘m guessing five figures, for sure. https://synthanatomy.com/2024/01/korg-ps-3300-fs-a-full-scale-reissue-of-the-ultra-rare-poly-analog-synthesizer.html

there's considerable spillover in both directions.

I'm seeing $1099. Ah well.

Any word on pricing?

What a terrifying collection of complete garbage. Gah. BTW, just before the 17:45 mark, she reiterates the complete lie that Goebbels was the one who pushed for the 440 Hz standard.

If you'd like to share the extent of your involvement with the team that meant you were in the room, I'd really appreciate it — here or in DM. Yes, I'm in no way disputing that it was the right decision. UNIX base and interoperability were pretty much what made Apple as a company viable in the long term. But the decision, to me was very much in line with Apple's readiness to throw out a Good Thing™ that had run its course and stood in the way of streamlining future efforts. I see Firewire as a similar case: a great idea that made things possible that weren't previously, but keeping that makes no sense in a world that moved on twenty years ago (Windows) and a decade ago (Mac). Then again, I have no idea how easy or hard it would be for Apple to bring support into future OS'en. I can imagine that their way forward is harmonising development for iPad and Mac — both for their own teams, and third-party software and hardware developers. And it may just not be feasible to add Firewire support to the iPadOS model. Who knows if they're planning mode-switching all-in-one devices. I could imagine them doing something like that. Not supporting drivers may be a big part of that. Do you have insights to share on that, perhaps?

I remember a lot of these details — I was a Mac hobbyist in the 90s and in Mac sales and support for fifteen years, and I manage and maintain the computer backline for one of my projects. I have a pretty good feel for the chronology and when something feels off. I'll look up specific dates occasionally in MacTracker to make sure.

Also, home insurance will often specifically exclude "collections" of value and require those to be specifically approved and possibly listed individually. My vinyl collection, for example, had to be specifically covered. My current home studio is not covered by home insurance, because a) it's a collection of gear, and b) it's used at least partly professionally.

"Actual cash value", at least here, is figured as "price paid as invoiced minus depreciation of X% per year over Y years", which on, say, a 1968 Hammond, works out to, literally, a hunk of wood and a handful of screws and sheet metal. Also worth noting that full "replacement cost" of gear in my insurance is only reimbursed if you actually replace it. If you don't, depreciation is subtracted off the replacement cost. For vintage gear that you won't or can't replace, this can be avoided by getting an expert appraisal, but that adds extra cost you need to be aware of.

I used to have insurance only on the instruments I actively used to make a living. Two building explosions and two instances of water damage later, I am much the wiser: Over a period of twenty years, I kept picking up stuff here and there for a couple of Euros — a package deal here, somebody threw an old FX unit at me for a crate of beer, stuff like that. So it never felt like much "value" to me, beyond the love of the vintage gear itself. The bread and butter were only a handful of keyboards, so those were insured. Then the building blew up where they were in storage, and everything I didn't happen to have at home or in repair was destroyed and/or stolen. And then I sat down and tallied up the value, and it came up close to the down payment on a house. And it wasn't insured. The very next day, I listed up EVERYTHING I still have — whether actively used for gigs or not — pulled up current value, and insured it. All of it. For stationary equipment, it's 0.5% of recovery value/year, for stuff I move around, it's 1%. That includes the laptop and iPad, both of which have been replaced after damage with zero hassle in the past.

The Mac Classic II came with System 7 (it was 1991)…it could run a special version of System 6 if desired though. The one with the two floppy drives (or optionally, one floppy and one HD) was the Mac SE (from 1987). My first Mac was an SE with 1 MB of RAM and a 20 MB Seagate hard drive. Ah… ResEdit was the shit, back in the day. I had so much fun with it. The idea of a file having a data fork and a resource fork, and saving format and associated application data in the resource fork was SO elegant. It was one of the major, MAJOR disappointments of OS X that they eliminated the resource fork and forced every file to work with filename extensions, instead. I understand why they did it, but it was one of those details that made Macintosh so much nicer than the other systems… The elimination of resource forks was, of course, the reason why the Resource Editor ResEdit no longer had a purpose. You stuck with a classic Mac running System 6 for FIFTEEN YEARS? (The eMac was dropped in Oct. 2005, and the first Intels came out in Jan. 2006.) The WWW had been around for 13 years by the time Apple moved to Intel. Their machines hadn't come with floppy drives for eight years by then. I'd been on an ADSL internet connection at home for five or six years by that point. Are you sure your timeline works out?